21-year-old charged in Mt. Pleasant stabbing

A Mt. Pleasant man remained in the Isabella County Jail Monday after being charged with trying to kill another man in Union Township over the weekend.

Hieu Trong Nguyen, 21, is accused of assault with intent to murder, according to a statement from Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski. Nguyen was arraigned Monday on that charge, as well as a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.

The incident happened Saturday night about 11:30 in the 2000 block of South Lyndale Lane, a normally quiet, middle-class residential neighborhood south of Broadway Street just outside the Mt. Pleasant city limits.

Nguyen is accused of stabbing a 42-year-old Mt. Pleasant man in the upper body during a fight, the sheriff said. The victim, whose name has not been released, was still in a Grand Rapids hospital Monday afternoon.

Nguyen is being held in lieu of $1 million cash or surety bond, the sheriff said.

The assault with intent to murder charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. The charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder carries up to a 10-year prison sentence.

Investigators continue to look into the incident, Mioduszewski said. No details on what the fight was about were released.